This video is fake! FAKE!! Those boxes are empty and you dont have any water. Or ham! How can you spend so much on trash at fast food? You will never make it when you are dehydrated and huffing like a broken bag pipe because of fast food. Stay classy
@spacechief1 ... Fake? I'm sorry but all the food products in the video were just bought from Walmart. I only did a video on what you can buy for $40 to add to your food storage. I do not buy water, I reuse bottles for free. This video was made more than a year ago and at that time, with a family of 7 (5 teens and adults), that is what we used to pay for fast food. We do not do eat out very often, but when we do, that is how much it usually cost for burgers, fries and drinks.
@watuwaitn4 ... I'm sorry I responded. I should have checked out your channel before I posted. You are one of those who watch a video and try to come up with something to complain about. Your last 5 comments started all the same... "This video is fake!" Have a nice day!
I live in N. Texas and went through a severe drought last year. You should have seen it. This drought is what started me buying more canned goods packed with water and I'm really thinking of canning. You would be surprised on the amount of water a family of four would go through. Cooking, cleaning, irrigation of animals and plants, hygiene, etc. Those of you who have wells, large ponds and adequate rainfall - consider yourselves lucky.
The only thing potentially wrong with all this is one would need a tremendous amount of water to cook all of it - other than the canned veggies. There is nothing wrong with dry canning/stocking, just make sure you have all the water you'll need to cook it.
You are so right about this. I'm single and not a junk food junkie, but in July of last year I decided to give up all fast food and donate that money to my church's food bank. By New Year's it totalled $522.00. It's just so easy to spend that money without thinking about it. And of course it kills you anyway. Thanks for sharing!
@johnrk556 ... Wow, just think of all those meals that you gave to others just by giving up fast food. You are a true blessing to those that you helped. :)
I stopped out almost entirely. I started buying in bulk, 10 for 10's, baking my own bread, watching sales. I have saved a ton of money, and what you are saying is true. Plus you eat better too. When you go to Mcdonalds or any fast food place you spend at least almost to $15 to $20 dollars. People are lazy and want everything fast is what the problem is.
@ToddIngram1000 ... It could be. I bought things at regular everyday prices (not specials) and wanted a wide variety of products not just all canned goods. The boxes of oatmeal and potatoes have many servings per container.
Ridiculous how little $40 buys now. Makes me mad to get home with $100 worth of groceries and realize I should have got so much more, but prices are going up all the time.
Ramen noodles are pretty good in a pinch if you are really hungry and there is nothing else available, but the salt content of that little spice package is ridiculous.
@lostindiancamp ... My son could eat 5 Ramen's a day if we let him. I have to hide the stash upstairs under a desk so he won't find them. Sometimes we cook them, add only a portion of the seasoning packet, and bulk it up with extra chicken and veggies. That way he gets some sort of nutrition without all the salt. :)
Good haul! I scored 100 cans of Libby's veg close to Thanksgiving for 15 cents a can with coupons matched up to a sale, also got 100 cans of Swanson chicken broth for free-15 cents a can too! Last week I picked up 40 packets of Starkist tuna for 25 cents each totally $10. LoL I just heard you say popcorn, I actually MADE 33 cents per box I walked out of the store with, all 37 of them :oD Coupons are free money! Love your vids, keep 'em coming!!
@SuperMommy227 ... Awsome. We use alot of coupons at Walgreens and CVS, but we never seem to score that great on food items. Once in a while we might get a few food items free or near free, but not as many.
I acknowledge there are families that have 40 bucks a week to almost-painlessly reallocate, but I'm not one of them. As a disabled older woman (I'm 51 this year), I would miss $5. I am budgeted quite literally to the nickel. I prep as an insurance policy, of sorts, against rising costs. By prepping now, I will save (and have already saved) money later by not having to pay insane prices for basic staples. But thank you for making a valid point that does apply to, I believe, the majority.
@AnnBearForFreedom ... We all do what we are able to. We have felt a drastic decline in our finances lately and have been relying on our food storage to get us through the hard time. I know that your situation will probably not change (I mean, I don't think the gov. is going to raise your disability anytime soon), but I do wish you all the best and hope that your cicumstances change for the better.
this is a great video thanks.believe it or not i take movie money or bingo money to buy all the storage food. I miss bingo but bingo is not fun when you are hungry.
I bought organic, hierloom seeds too. They can be sprouted, for their high nutrition, or they can be planted and give you nutrient-rich foods. That way you can add the high-nutrient sprouted grains and/or fresh fruits/veggies to the stored foods you have. Learning how to sprout and and grow food will be very valuable in the near future. Great video.
use coupons.... today at shoprite they had pennsylvania dutch noodles for $1.25.. on their website they had a dollar coupon when you registered... i paid 25 cents for each bag... egg noodles have 9 grams of protein... you need to think healthy when you shop... the basics... BESIDES CARBS.... protein and fiber.... also... the electrolytes... potassium... salt...magnesium... calcium..... so powdered milk for calcium and protein.... salt substitute is potassium and magnesium..
@watuwaitn4 thank you. if people will just follow your suggestions it will save lives. you have given a way to start that most everyone can do. a few months ago when i realized there may well be a food shortage coming i went out and bought lots of the cheapest pb&j ,crackers&and ramen noodles i could find. then got the rice,beans,tuna,water. just kept expanding. you can live on cheap food for yrs. if necessary until you get food crops. without food & water you die ,and quite unpleasantly.
Actually, if someone just spent $2-$5 each time they went to the grocery store, they could buy 2-3 things or more each time & most won't miss $5. It adds up..however; my main concern is that if all goes down, WE WILL NEED to be healthy..& most prepping food is dead..there is no nutrition, no life & it makes us sick. I know that was not your goal, but most people do not realize they could live forever & be very happy if they had dandelions & pine or spruce trees anywhere around them.
@giddymoon ... I consiser the food storage a temporary source of food. We will use our "not so good for you" food in conjunction with fresh meats, veggies, fruits and foraged items, or to eat when those items are not available. It is always better to find fresh items, but honestly, most people will not live on dandelions and pine needle tea alone. Hopefully we can use those sources of foods along with the can goods to make them more palateable to most of us. Good point.
@watuwaitn4 They will if they had to:) I think I am going to work on food storage that has nutritional benefit. That is hard to find in the prepper com. Everyone is stock piling things that will last..well, dried herbs, dandelions, weeds, roots, etc will & they heal us. There are ways to have healthy food, we are just not shown how. I will probably have some of this stuff in my pile too, but I think we are missing out on crucial info by not paying enough attention to the land.
@AussieHomestead ... There would be fun to know how far $40 goes in Austraila. I know you get this all the time but... Gooday Mate! LOL, couldn't resist! :)
I found it even better to shop at Aldi's if I was going for the best long term storage. But I have switched to eating organic. I decided to eat healthy as I can, so I do lots of rice / beans and low amounts of meat / cheeze.
@marthale7 ... Wish we had an Aldi's near here, I've heard a few people recommend it. We don't do organic here, but we do eat lots of beans and rice by choice. We have cut our meat intake drastically, not by choice but because of our economical situation. I can never get rid of cheese though, I do love it so. LOL
I was laid off 2 years ago from a highly specialized job with a company that went to China thanks to Obama's exorbitant new tax-regulations on US job creators.
Now I'm $6,786 in credit card debt just buying food, I can't get welfare because my credit score is too high and because I'm a white male, never mind that I have custody of my 3 kids!
What pisses me off is that I see these black & latino gangsters driving up in blinged-out Mercedes and paying for everything with welfare debt cards, WTF?!!
I am the last person you wanna tell you cant afford a food storage. I am recently married but proir to, I was still a prepper with 3 kids. We went to free bees and places where they give food they are getting ready to toss. They were still good we are still alive, lol.
Lady you are on my prepping level. I am lovin this channel!!!!!!!!!!!!
@MontanaPrepper7 ... I'm glad that you enjoy my channel :) You need to do what ever you can to prep. I see so much waste in America. Some people/businesses throw away perfectly good stuff. And by the way, I'm glad you are still alive. LOL! JK
I found this to be very informative.. and I really don't know why all of these people are bashing you. Thanks for posting this. I think I'm going to experiment with what I can get for 40 bucks that would feed my family. Thanks for posting this!
@kmikesell ... We recently cancelled my cell phone ($50) and got our dishnet bill down to less than $25 (it was $90), so I know what you are talking about. It's hard to make changes but if it is important to you, you can do it. Our priorities right now are to prepare, but at least we can prepare with a few basic cable channels :)
@watuwaitn4 I was replying to jai666666666 I thought he was totally out of line by what he said. I think that your video is an informative one. At work we have a company store every once in a while and we get our surplus that way.
If you can let your children get sodomized by your Ministers so you can be in good standing in the community, I'll keep going to your soup kitchens. Fuck you, and fuck your fat ass!
@Jai666666666 ... I must ask you to please refrain from talking like that. I do not believe that you know me, my "minister" or my children and do not have any right speaking of us that way. I have no idea where you come off saying or even thinking such things. Please do make any comments of that type to my videos again.
Awesome video. I went to Walmart the other day to see how much I could stretch $50 focusing on storable food. I'm amazed how far you can get with all store-brand food. I think I'm going to make this investment every paycheck. I'll have a huge stock pile in just a few months.
But one thing I forgot that I should have remembered- seasoning, salt, etc... It would really suck to be stuck with beans and rice with no seasoning. I did pick up some hot sauce though.
Not a lot of money,I eat at the soup kitchens that are four stars around here,and I use the food banks for all my daily needs.My salary is spent on luxury foods,I just can't afford usually,like Dijon,French wines,cashews and mixed nuts,honey and legumes of every type. I'm going to start a large bar as well.Of course,all this goes in storage and I'm getting a second fridge and soon a freezer to more on hand of fresh foods.If you're destitute,you can still invent a scam to keep packing like a rat!
I make a concerted effort to avoid fast food. Its not healthy for the most part, cost a lot, and give me a stomach ache. I also cancelled the fifteen dollar subscription to the MMO's game I was playing and went free to play. My biggest challenge is storage space. I would be in luck if I could my sister to start prepper and we can work together. She lives about thirty miles away. Do what you can, when you can, and the best you can. Great video.
@KingGigglez ... $40 at Burger King for 3 adults, 2 teen (who eat more than adults) and 2 kids is not all that much food. My husbands Hamburger with jalapenos, fries and a drink is more than $8. When you buy the healthy food like chicken, salad, and water bottles, they are even more expensive than the fatty stuff on the menu like burgers, fries and sodas.
@KingGigglez My sister in law works at Burger King. I come from a big family of nine people. It is easy to spend a fortune there. Trust me. I only eat their apple fries though since they have the best anywhere.
people forget that they can start with as little as 5 or 10 bucks a paycheck. 2 cans and 3 boxes extra piles up over time. giving up 1 coffee a week and using that money will do it.start with things you dont eat that often such as the rice and beans and slowly move to instant potatoes and mac and cheese and then get the things that are more tempting and appealing. leave snack foods for last.
@lkcheat ... All great suggestions. The whole reason for the video is just to get people to think about starting. So many are overwhelmed, thinking you need to shell out $3000 for the 1 year kit. But you are so right, $5 or $10 is all you need to start, and build on from there. Thanks for the great comment.
@watuwaitn4 If you are spending 3K on a 1 year kit which I assume would be for a family of four you have to be out of your mind! There are MUCH cheaper ways to go about food storage.
@papillonaquatique ... I agree, but that is what some people are doing (of course, not me) That is why I put the video out there, to let people know that you can start your food storage even if you do not have alot of money or a "Sam's" available to you.
Great video!! You made some excellent points on how ppl can allocate their restaurant money for their "home storage." As a matter of fact, I did a test on this for my family. After gathering receipts from the last 4 restaurants, the total was (for 2 ppl) nearly $165.00. I can buy a case of grains & beans & a few cans of non-fat dried milk from the LDS cannery w/that money.
@MyFreedomChannel ... Man, just think how many meals that you can make out of that $165.00 with the food from the cannery. I wish I had one close to me, I would be calling for an appt. as often as possible :)
@watuwaitn4 Yep, you could make a lot of meals w/cooked whole wheat berries. Shelf Reliance has a great recipe for Wheat Berry Hamburger Casserole. Just add ground beef (cooked), a can of tomatoes, corn and Italian seasonings; bake it for a half-hr or so; then add cheese on top; melt under broiler - voila!! You've got a healthy meal that can feed 6-8 people. My husband doesn't like it too much, so I save a little for an extra meal 4 me & give rest to my elderly neighbor.
This is a good video. I have done well to eliminate the waste food expenses and have trimmed it nearly to the bone. What is left to be trimmed in my budget is on cell phone, internet, and gasoline.
@kentuckyprepper1792 ... We have been trimming our expenses too. Everyone is saying the economy is picking up, but the past 6 months has been the worst yet (for us).
@HeartlessArchAngel69 Save it, and buy your food in bulk - much cheaper. Get a part-time job, or employ yourself part-time (gardening, drywalling, painting, baking, bookkeeping, taxes - whatever your talent). Grow and can your own (most vegetables are easy to grow & canning is not hard to learn - though I should be one to talk as I haven't learned to can yet! Got extra "stuff"? (baby clothes, tools you never use, etc) SELL IT! All my best to you.
this is the kinda thing i do when i coupon/stockpile/ donate. see how much you can get for x dollars. just sent a care box to the church, food i dont need, most of it beautiful name brand products. the people were happy to take the donation.
@lkcheat ... It's great to give to others, and when you can coupon and get everything on the cheap, it'seven better. The church now can get twice as much as you would normally donate. You sound like you are deffinately one of the good guys :)
So...you've got food stored, but the SHTF and your neighbor has no food stored, but he has a gun. Do you volunteer to share, or does he just take it all?
@vinegaroon1 ... I do have some food set aside for family that can be givin to others, but no one knows that I have tons of food storage in my neighborhood. As soon as shtf, our storage will be split up into different locations in our house and we are working on a "hidden" area in our house. Our house that we will build will have "secret" areas for storage. Plus, we got guns too :)
@ryoshi100 ... If and when we eat at a simple fast food restaurant (like Burger King or Jack in the Box, or even Subway), our family spends between $40 - $50 at one meal. That is 2 adults, 3 teens (2 of them eat more than us), and 2 children. It's way too much, but that's the cost.
@watuwaitn4 that amount at a fast food is normal for a family your size..i totally agree with ya.makes you wonder huh,what we take for granted just to fill in a pleasure...and i'm with hubby,i gotta have the super size...lol...i have a 12 year old son and he can put it down,so i can immagine your 3 teens..lol
This is a great lesson. Even if you did this once a month, you'd have a nice stock pile in a few months! Vary the products each month and get a wider variety.
@mustdi39 ... mashed potatoes - 17 servings, oats - 15 servings, pancakes- 13 servings, not counting 12 cans of veggies, 4 (2 pack) of stuffing, 4 cans of tuna, 3 pounds of pasta (will make 3 meals for a family of 5), not counting the rest of it. For a single person you could eat for a month or more on this. Plus, McD's won't be open for you to eat. This shows how much you could put away for a family. For my family of 7, it costs more than $40 just for cheap burgers, fris, and a drink.
@mustdi39 ... mashed potatoes - 17 servings, oats - 15 servings, pancakes- 13 servings, not counting 12 cans of veggies, 4 (2 pack) of stuffing, 4 cans of tuna, 3 pounds of pasta (will make 3 meals for a family of 5), not counting the rest of it. For a single person you could eat for a month or more on this. Plus, McD's won't be open for you to eat. This shows how much you could put away for a family. For my family of 7, it costs more than $40 just for cheap burgers, fris, and a drink.
Love your vids! Great job!! I do some food storage.. and have.. for several years. Back then there was a factory lay-off... so no work for almost 3 months. It was horrible, but my kids never went to bed hungry. Food storage is a necessity. You never know what's around the corner.
@TopazStar67 ... I hope that everything is going OK (work wise) now. That is what your preps are for, the unexpected. We own a small buisiness and when times are tough, we regularly eat our food storage. To us, it's an absolute necessity. Thanks so much for commenting.
@200xowner ... yep, for a small town with almost no other option, it is a great way to get people to understand how to start food storage. Everyone has a wal-mart close by. Hopefully, after they grab a few extras at Wally World, they will start thinking longer term. But to get them started, it's as easy as going to Wal-mart.
Even if you spent $20 to $40 a week on prep items you could have a nice store of food in no time. So many people can't afford to buy in bulk.. This would be easer to store when you get a little at a time. No need to spend a day or two getting it ready to store for long term.
punch in food prep for the lazy late and cheap. a guy who goes by Zombie Tactics does a great series on preparedness-i especially suggest you see #10 which is about knorrs sides-valuable info. keep prepping!
@pranksterguy1 ... I have seen Zombie Tactics and love the vids. I'll have to recheck #10. The thing I love about great videos is that if I see them again later, I still learn something that I misse the first time. Thanks for watching.
You're a smart lady! This vid can wake up alot of people as to what they can get for their money-if they give it some thought! At our local Costco Top Ramen sells for $7.45 a case,(48 packs to a case) and it's hogh in calories-which is good in a SHTF situation! You can add all sorts of things to Top Ramen.Thanks for the vid!
@pranksterguy1 ... Thanks so much for watching and commenting. My son could live on Ramen Noodles. We have to literally hide the food storage because he will go through a whole box in a few days. You are so right about adding anything to it. We regularly add fresh, canned and dehydrated veggies, meats, rice, beans... almost anything to bulk it up. Plus the seasoning packet is a great addition to lots of meals. But my son says its the best just plain Ramen Soup. :)
A friend of mine, a frugal Cajun, showed me how he would take the seasoning pack from ramen noodles and use it to season a roux or white sauce to pour over the ramen. He added some diced chicken and carrots to it and was incredibly good!
Reality Break (tm): Them what wants ta get food will get it. Them what don' wanna have an inexhaustible store of excuses, the greatest of which boils down to "I Don't Want To".
This idea is great bait for the ones just beginning to climb up onto the fence out of the Camp of the Deniers.
Another idea is to buy a few ($20 maybe) of everyday canned foods, then only replace those foods with stuff on sale. Buying _only_ on sale saves more $ that then rolls into future purchases.
@loganv0410 ... "you can only lead a horse to water", the rest is up to them. The idea of buying only the stuff on sale after you get some food storage together is so important. Once you get into the swing of things, you can start to see a pattern of the sales. Since canned veggies doesn't go on sale in my area very often, we buy more when it does. Because tuna is on sale every 2 months, we do not have to buy as much unless it's a really good deal. Thanks for commenting.
@michaelofnewbabylon ... Ramen noodles is a bunch of carbs, but I think it will also be great to have some as a moral booster. My kids love it and if you bulk it up with veggies and canned chicken, it might make some of the food tolerable for those with picky eating. But men will not live on Ramen Noodles alone :)
buying ramen is way better than getting just regular pasta because its essentially pasta and you can just mix velvetta or spaghetti sauce or anything else with it; just discard that 60% DVA sodium packet of spice it comes with and just use some salt pepper and basil or something to ur likings. plus it prepares 10x faster than regular pasta
My wife and I are in our late 30's now and I'm really thinking about this kind of stuff more and more, food stocking and prepping in general. I grew up with people who were from the midwest and canned goods year round, so I have some experience. Unfortunately, my wife is the typical, So Cal. born and raised spoiled brat. She even complains about having to go regular grocery shopping. She has zero interest in food storage. As I type this, our shelves are bare.Maybe this video will help. Thanks.
@jtnoodle ... Good luck. Maybe you can sneak in a small amount of food storage. A little at a time, maybe put it in an unused closet... Oh, you said she was a Calif. Girl, that means no extra closet space. Well, maybe in the basement? :)
@jtnoodle I took over an extra closet in a spare bedroom and do all the prepping myself. She understands why I do it and doesn't complain much. My advice. Don't ask just do.
Thanks for an AWESOME Video. People don't realize how much money they 'waste' that could be used for putting away food and supplies. My wife is not on board and thinks I'm paranoid or 'crazy' so things go a l
@Jeffrich308 ... A good way to go about getting your wife on board is not as a prepper, but how it's a convienence to pick up a few extras while it's on sale. I started telling my husband it would be great to have a few extra cans on hand for storm emergencies or if company comes. Then, I started adding 10 extra- telling him it was a great sale and how much we saved. Now he is used to our pantry being overfilled. Or you could always make a secret stash somewhere that she won't look :)
If most people kept track of all their spending for one month they would find money from Starbucks, fast food and dining out, adding applications on their cellphones, impulse purchases, and more.
@cherry420x ... Our prices have gone up on everything just in the past month, it would probably cost me $5 more to buy this today, only 2 months later. I refused to buy bacon last week because the price went up, now it's over $1 more for one package. Heck, I didn't need it that bad. I guess we will be happier then ever that we have food storage. No bacon, no problem... we will eat beans today :)
Another way to build long term food storage is to take a portion of what you spend for groceries, go to your local LDS cannery (if you have one in your city) and buy 50 lbs of wheat, beans and rice.
Nicely done! Ridiculous cable TV payments which GO ON FOREVER would free up a lot of money for food storage but far too few are willing to give it up. They seem to place cable TV on the same level as heat for the house or gas for the car. Cable TV is not a necessity and one can live just fine without it. Imaging how your food storage could grow with a MONTHLY infusion of money like that!
For a situation like this, it all comes down to a person's priorities. It's that simple.
@quaffer22 ... Rice and beans- a great staple, very cheap, long shelf life, can add almost anything to it for variety, can be added to almost any recipe to "bulk" it up, and they taste great. It's the perfect prepper food!
Great video once again! Great ideals. when I go shopping with my wife, when she say 1 can~I grab 2 or 3 cans. I then tell her that it is for food storage. I try to get something extra with every trip to the store. I look for sale items all the time. Have a great day!
@NotSomebody63 ... That's the way to do it. That is also a good way to ease a spouse into prepping, a little at a time. After a while it just becomes routine to grab a few extra everytime you go into the store.
I live in Western Australia and over here groceries are a alot more expensive. Four my family of four (soon to be 5!) we budget $200 a week. Out of that I take $50 and once a month I do a bulk buy of mostly non food items (toilet paper, paper towels, nappies, wipes, laundry powder, dish detergent etc). I then buy a $10 gift card every week for the extras in the Xmas period and a $10 gift card for SHTF (covers that extra stock up if you know somethings coming or say temp financial crisis etc etc.
@l33thun3 ... That is a great idea about the gift cards. I used to add a few dollors here and there to my monthly utility bills, when I could. It added up and soon I was at least a month ahead if there was ever an emergency. You have to do what you can with what you have. In any prep, slow and steady will eventually add up to alot and hopefully we will all win the race.
@watuwaitn4 We've also been paying extra to our monthly bills by practicing "rounding up". So say our phone bill this month is $24. We pay $25 or $30, our electricity is $212 we'd pay $220 to $250 - depending on what we can afford that month. We now get bills that tell us we're in credit after the new invoice amount is deducted. We keep them 3 months ahead - which has taken us 2+ years to do. As you say: Just do a little bit at a time - it builds up! Our next goal is paying off the car early.
We must stop the mindless spending and be more aware. We are so apt to spend $10 here and $10 there with nothing to show for it! You are so right...buying food for our family is an investment.
Great haul for $40! There is absolutely no way I could buy all this stuff with $40in my area. I'm so envious of the deals that I see others are able to get.:) Just doing the best we can with the outrageous prices around here.
@1930sgirl ... And I think my town has high prices. I hear others talk about picking up cans of carrots for 35 cents and tuna 3/$1. But I am thankful that I can still purchase what I can for the price, they say that the prices will be going up by Summer. I've been stocking up, but I still get a few strange looks when I fill up my cart with cartons of canned goods. Infact my kids refuse to come with me when toilet paper is on sale, I buy 15 or so at a time and we have had some odd comments :)
@watuwaitn4 ...I have had some strange looks too! My daughter is still laughing about the Walmart clerk(young guy about 20) who asked if we were buying so much food because we were polygamists! LOL! I think he's been watching a little too much Big Love.:)
@Qintes ... I love stove top stuffing too! When I first moved out into my own apartment 20 years ago, I ate it all the time. It's one of my quick and easy comfort foods :)
This video is fake! FAKE!! Those boxes are empty and you dont have any water. Or ham! How can you spend so much on trash at fast food? You will never make it when you are dehydrated and huffing like a broken bag pipe because of fast food. Stay classy
spacechief1 2 days ago
@spacechief1 ... Fake? I'm sorry but all the food products in the video were just bought from Walmart. I only did a video on what you can buy for $40 to add to your food storage. I do not buy water, I reuse bottles for free. This video was made more than a year ago and at that time, with a family of 7 (5 teens and adults), that is what we used to pay for fast food. We do not do eat out very often, but when we do, that is how much it usually cost for burgers, fries and drinks.
watuwaitn4 2 days ago
@watuwaitn4 ... I'm sorry I responded. I should have checked out your channel before I posted. You are one of those who watch a video and try to come up with something to complain about. Your last 5 comments started all the same... "This video is fake!" Have a nice day!
watuwaitn4 2 days ago
I live in N. Texas and went through a severe drought last year. You should have seen it. This drought is what started me buying more canned goods packed with water and I'm really thinking of canning. You would be surprised on the amount of water a family of four would go through. Cooking, cleaning, irrigation of animals and plants, hygiene, etc. Those of you who have wells, large ponds and adequate rainfall - consider yourselves lucky.
BarbosaUral 2 days ago
The only thing potentially wrong with all this is one would need a tremendous amount of water to cook all of it - other than the canned veggies. There is nothing wrong with dry canning/stocking, just make sure you have all the water you'll need to cook it.
BarbosaUral 3 days ago
@BarbosaUral ... Good point! We have alot of water stored and have a pond and creek near our bug out spot. Thanks for the comment.
watuwaitn4 2 days ago
You are so right about this. I'm single and not a junk food junkie, but in July of last year I decided to give up all fast food and donate that money to my church's food bank. By New Year's it totalled $522.00. It's just so easy to spend that money without thinking about it. And of course it kills you anyway. Thanks for sharing!
johnrk556 4 days ago
@johnrk556 ... Wow, just think of all those meals that you gave to others just by giving up fast food. You are a true blessing to those that you helped. :)
watuwaitn4 3 days ago
i love this vid!
coolpixs8100 1 week ago
@coolpixs8100 ... I'm glad you enjoyed, Thanks!
watuwaitn4 1 week ago
Great info
SuperSparky2012 2 weeks ago
@SuperSparky2012 ... Thanks!
watuwaitn4 1 week ago
@sweetone2012 ...bagged - some, canned- only the expensive brands(went shopping last night and bought kidney beans instead.
watuwaitn4 2 weeks ago
I love this video, I was thinking a menu to go along with the food items purchased would be great.
Breakfast: oatmeal, rice, or pancakes (I would add syrup, butter buds, and powdered milk to my stash)
Lunch/Dinner: beans and rice, etc, Any ideas?
frugalmrsolson1 2 weeks ago
Great job! I am also storing ensure which is a good nutritious meal substitute.
SewProject 3 weeks ago
One of the more practicle videos I've seen. Great job!
wabashdreamer1 3 weeks ago
@wabashdreamer1 ... well Thanks :)
watuwaitn4 3 weeks ago
I stopped out almost entirely. I started buying in bulk, 10 for 10's, baking my own bread, watching sales. I have saved a ton of money, and what you are saying is true. Plus you eat better too. When you go to Mcdonalds or any fast food place you spend at least almost to $15 to $20 dollars. People are lazy and want everything fast is what the problem is.
moonpie859 1 month ago
hmmm....just took my girlfriend out to red lobster last week. $120 with tip. thats a lot of food i could have stored!
drakken221 1 month ago
@drakken221 ... Oh boy, I could buy a bunch of food storage with that. :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
@watuwaitn4 that could be around 100 cans of food if you buy right.
ToddIngram1000 2 weeks ago
@ToddIngram1000 ... It could be. I bought things at regular everyday prices (not specials) and wanted a wide variety of products not just all canned goods. The boxes of oatmeal and potatoes have many servings per container.
watuwaitn4 2 weeks ago
Ridiculous how little $40 buys now. Makes me mad to get home with $100 worth of groceries and realize I should have got so much more, but prices are going up all the time.
lostindiancamp 1 month ago
@lostindiancamp ,,, This was filmed a year ago, I do not think I could get that for todays prices.... I see another video coming. LOL!
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Ramen noodles are pretty good in a pinch if you are really hungry and there is nothing else available, but the salt content of that little spice package is ridiculous.
lostindiancamp 1 month ago
@lostindiancamp ... My son could eat 5 Ramen's a day if we let him. I have to hide the stash upstairs under a desk so he won't find them. Sometimes we cook them, add only a portion of the seasoning packet, and bulk it up with extra chicken and veggies. That way he gets some sort of nutrition without all the salt. :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Good haul! I scored 100 cans of Libby's veg close to Thanksgiving for 15 cents a can with coupons matched up to a sale, also got 100 cans of Swanson chicken broth for free-15 cents a can too! Last week I picked up 40 packets of Starkist tuna for 25 cents each totally $10. LoL I just heard you say popcorn, I actually MADE 33 cents per box I walked out of the store with, all 37 of them :oD Coupons are free money! Love your vids, keep 'em coming!!
SuperMommy227 1 month ago
@SuperMommy227 ... Awsome. We use alot of coupons at Walgreens and CVS, but we never seem to score that great on food items. Once in a while we might get a few food items free or near free, but not as many.
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing , that gave me ideas! Have a great day and all the best !
The2011Believer 1 month ago
@The2011Believer ... Thanks for watching :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
I am happy to see someone with common sense and realizing what can happen if you seperate wants from needs..Thanks so much for the inspiration.
Your video really inspired me to make the change.
jokerswild1963 1 month ago
@jokerswild1963 ... Thanks for watching. Good luck with the change, it might be easier than you think. :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
I acknowledge there are families that have 40 bucks a week to almost-painlessly reallocate, but I'm not one of them. As a disabled older woman (I'm 51 this year), I would miss $5. I am budgeted quite literally to the nickel. I prep as an insurance policy, of sorts, against rising costs. By prepping now, I will save (and have already saved) money later by not having to pay insane prices for basic staples. But thank you for making a valid point that does apply to, I believe, the majority.
AnnBearForFreedom 1 month ago
@AnnBearForFreedom ... We all do what we are able to. We have felt a drastic decline in our finances lately and have been relying on our food storage to get us through the hard time. I know that your situation will probably not change (I mean, I don't think the gov. is going to raise your disability anytime soon), but I do wish you all the best and hope that your cicumstances change for the better.
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
this is a great video thanks.believe it or not i take movie money or bingo money to buy all the storage food. I miss bingo but bingo is not fun when you are hungry.
TheSnowbird020 1 month ago
@TheSnowbird020 ... Hunger usually wins out over almost anything in our house :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
I bought organic, hierloom seeds too. They can be sprouted, for their high nutrition, or they can be planted and give you nutrient-rich foods. That way you can add the high-nutrient sprouted grains and/or fresh fruits/veggies to the stored foods you have. Learning how to sprout and and grow food will be very valuable in the near future. Great video.
MissSilver2011 1 month ago
use coupons.... today at shoprite they had pennsylvania dutch noodles for $1.25.. on their website they had a dollar coupon when you registered... i paid 25 cents for each bag... egg noodles have 9 grams of protein... you need to think healthy when you shop... the basics... BESIDES CARBS.... protein and fiber.... also... the electrolytes... potassium... salt...magnesium... calcium..... so powdered milk for calcium and protein.... salt substitute is potassium and magnesium..
siempresola77 1 month ago
@watuwaitn4 thank you. if people will just follow your suggestions it will save lives. you have given a way to start that most everyone can do. a few months ago when i realized there may well be a food shortage coming i went out and bought lots of the cheapest pb&j ,crackers&and ramen noodles i could find. then got the rice,beans,tuna,water. just kept expanding. you can live on cheap food for yrs. if necessary until you get food crops. without food & water you die ,and quite unpleasantly.
walklikeacat1234 1 month ago
Excellent! Liked, Shared, etc.
battymomof3 1 month ago
@battymomof3 ... Thanks for watching :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Actually, if someone just spent $2-$5 each time they went to the grocery store, they could buy 2-3 things or more each time & most won't miss $5. It adds up..however; my main concern is that if all goes down, WE WILL NEED to be healthy..& most prepping food is dead..there is no nutrition, no life & it makes us sick. I know that was not your goal, but most people do not realize they could live forever & be very happy if they had dandelions & pine or spruce trees anywhere around them.
giddymoon 1 month ago
@giddymoon ... I consiser the food storage a temporary source of food. We will use our "not so good for you" food in conjunction with fresh meats, veggies, fruits and foraged items, or to eat when those items are not available. It is always better to find fresh items, but honestly, most people will not live on dandelions and pine needle tea alone. Hopefully we can use those sources of foods along with the can goods to make them more palateable to most of us. Good point.
watuwaitn4 1 month ago 2
@watuwaitn4 They will if they had to:) I think I am going to work on food storage that has nutritional benefit. That is hard to find in the prepper com. Everyone is stock piling things that will last..well, dried herbs, dandelions, weeds, roots, etc will & they heal us. There are ways to have healthy food, we are just not shown how. I will probably have some of this stuff in my pile too, but I think we are missing out on crucial info by not paying enough attention to the land.
giddymoon 1 month ago
@AussieHomestead ... There would be fun to know how far $40 goes in Austraila. I know you get this all the time but... Gooday Mate! LOL, couldn't resist! :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
I found it even better to shop at Aldi's if I was going for the best long term storage. But I have switched to eating organic. I decided to eat healthy as I can, so I do lots of rice / beans and low amounts of meat / cheeze.
marthale7 1 month ago
@marthale7 ... Wish we had an Aldi's near here, I've heard a few people recommend it. We don't do organic here, but we do eat lots of beans and rice by choice. We have cut our meat intake drastically, not by choice but because of our economical situation. I can never get rid of cheese though, I do love it so. LOL
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Wow! That's a lot of stuff. You are a prepper extraordinaire. 😃
SpAzZyWoNdErZ 1 month ago
@SpAzZyWoNdErZ ... Thanks :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
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I was laid off 2 years ago from a highly specialized job with a company that went to China thanks to Obama's exorbitant new tax-regulations on US job creators.
Now I'm $6,786 in credit card debt just buying food, I can't get welfare because my credit score is too high and because I'm a white male, never mind that I have custody of my 3 kids!
What pisses me off is that I see these black & latino gangsters driving up in blinged-out Mercedes and paying for everything with welfare debt cards, WTF?!!
AddAsC0NTACT 1 month ago
I am the last person you wanna tell you cant afford a food storage. I am recently married but proir to, I was still a prepper with 3 kids. We went to free bees and places where they give food they are getting ready to toss. They were still good we are still alive, lol.
Lady you are on my prepping level. I am lovin this channel!!!!!!!!!!!!
MontanaPrepper7 1 month ago
@MontanaPrepper7 ... I'm glad that you enjoy my channel :) You need to do what ever you can to prep. I see so much waste in America. Some people/businesses throw away perfectly good stuff. And by the way, I'm glad you are still alive. LOL! JK
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Wow...really puts things in perspective. Thanks for sharing.
curtsboo 1 month ago
I found this to be very informative.. and I really don't know why all of these people are bashing you. Thanks for posting this. I think I'm going to experiment with what I can get for 40 bucks that would feed my family. Thanks for posting this!
minikin84 1 month ago
@minikin84 I'm glad that you enjoyed it, good luck with the experiment :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
I tell people that their cell phone or cable bill is their food storage.....it depends where your priorities lie!
kmikesell 1 month ago
@kmikesell ... We recently cancelled my cell phone ($50) and got our dishnet bill down to less than $25 (it was $90), so I know what you are talking about. It's hard to make changes but if it is important to you, you can do it. Our priorities right now are to prepare, but at least we can prepare with a few basic cable channels :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
@watuwaitn4 Get a Roku! You'll be glad you did!
kmikesell 1 month ago
How did you pick up all these crazies??
vlr1230 1 month ago
@vlr1230 ... Have no idea!
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
@watuwaitn4 I was replying to jai666666666 I thought he was totally out of line by what he said. I think that your video is an informative one. At work we have a company store every once in a while and we get our surplus that way.
elizabethbriana 1 month ago
@elizabethbriana i am also new to youtube I do not know what i am doing.
elizabethbriana 1 month ago
@elizabethbriana ... It seems that you are learning your way around YT. Your company sounds like a great place to work. Thanks for watching :)
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Good thing that you don't know me because your an idiot.
elizabethbriana 1 month ago
@elizabethbriana ... I'm sorry that you think so, BTW, why is your channel unavailable?
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
If you can let your children get sodomized by your Ministers so you can be in good standing in the community, I'll keep going to your soup kitchens. Fuck you, and fuck your fat ass!
Jai666666666 1 month ago
@Jai666666666 ... I must ask you to please refrain from talking like that. I do not believe that you know me, my "minister" or my children and do not have any right speaking of us that way. I have no idea where you come off saying or even thinking such things. Please do make any comments of that type to my videos again.
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Awesome video. I went to Walmart the other day to see how much I could stretch $50 focusing on storable food. I'm amazed how far you can get with all store-brand food. I think I'm going to make this investment every paycheck. I'll have a huge stock pile in just a few months.
But one thing I forgot that I should have remembered- seasoning, salt, etc... It would really suck to be stuck with beans and rice with no seasoning. I did pick up some hot sauce though.
Thanks for posting!
diggingforgold 1 month ago
@diggingforgold ... Our family would be OK with just garlic salt and celantro out of our garden. We love that stuff. Good reminder!
watuwaitn4 1 month ago
Not a lot of money,I eat at the soup kitchens that are four stars around here,and I use the food banks for all my daily needs.My salary is spent on luxury foods,I just can't afford usually,like Dijon,French wines,cashews and mixed nuts,honey and legumes of every type. I'm going to start a large bar as well.Of course,all this goes in storage and I'm getting a second fridge and soon a freezer to more on hand of fresh foods.If you're destitute,you can still invent a scam to keep packing like a rat!
Jai666666666 2 months ago
@Jai666666666 ... Man, I can't tell if you are joking or serious. Hopefully you are the first rather than the later.
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
@Jai666666666 very sad that " you can invent a scam"
elizabethbriana 1 month ago
I make a concerted effort to avoid fast food. Its not healthy for the most part, cost a lot, and give me a stomach ache. I also cancelled the fifteen dollar subscription to the MMO's game I was playing and went free to play. My biggest challenge is storage space. I would be in luck if I could my sister to start prepper and we can work together. She lives about thirty miles away. Do what you can, when you can, and the best you can. Great video.
Grizzly907LA 2 months ago
@Grizzly907LA ... Good luck with your sister, it sounds like a great idea to get her on the prepper wagon. Happy New Year.
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
What 40$ at berger king u guys must be fatassis
KingGigglez 2 months ago
@KingGigglez ... $40 at Burger King for 3 adults, 2 teen (who eat more than adults) and 2 kids is not all that much food. My husbands Hamburger with jalapenos, fries and a drink is more than $8. When you buy the healthy food like chicken, salad, and water bottles, they are even more expensive than the fatty stuff on the menu like burgers, fries and sodas.
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
@KingGigglez My sister in law works at Burger King. I come from a big family of nine people. It is easy to spend a fortune there. Trust me. I only eat their apple fries though since they have the best anywhere.
papillonaquatique 2 months ago
people forget that they can start with as little as 5 or 10 bucks a paycheck. 2 cans and 3 boxes extra piles up over time. giving up 1 coffee a week and using that money will do it.start with things you dont eat that often such as the rice and beans and slowly move to instant potatoes and mac and cheese and then get the things that are more tempting and appealing. leave snack foods for last.
lkcheat 2 months ago
@lkcheat ... All great suggestions. The whole reason for the video is just to get people to think about starting. So many are overwhelmed, thinking you need to shell out $3000 for the 1 year kit. But you are so right, $5 or $10 is all you need to start, and build on from there. Thanks for the great comment.
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
@watuwaitn4 If you are spending 3K on a 1 year kit which I assume would be for a family of four you have to be out of your mind! There are MUCH cheaper ways to go about food storage.
papillonaquatique 2 months ago
@papillonaquatique ... I agree, but that is what some people are doing (of course, not me) That is why I put the video out there, to let people know that you can start your food storage even if you do not have alot of money or a "Sam's" available to you.
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
Great video!! You made some excellent points on how ppl can allocate their restaurant money for their "home storage." As a matter of fact, I did a test on this for my family. After gathering receipts from the last 4 restaurants, the total was (for 2 ppl) nearly $165.00. I can buy a case of grains & beans & a few cans of non-fat dried milk from the LDS cannery w/that money.
MyFreedomChannel 2 months ago
@MyFreedomChannel ... Man, just think how many meals that you can make out of that $165.00 with the food from the cannery. I wish I had one close to me, I would be calling for an appt. as often as possible :)
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
@watuwaitn4 Yep, you could make a lot of meals w/cooked whole wheat berries. Shelf Reliance has a great recipe for Wheat Berry Hamburger Casserole. Just add ground beef (cooked), a can of tomatoes, corn and Italian seasonings; bake it for a half-hr or so; then add cheese on top; melt under broiler - voila!! You've got a healthy meal that can feed 6-8 people. My husband doesn't like it too much, so I save a little for an extra meal 4 me & give rest to my elderly neighbor.
MyFreedomChannel 2 months ago
@MyFreedomChannel ... It sounds pretty good to me, and giving the rest to the neighbor makes it extra special. :)
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
Excellent video with great ideas! Thanks!
DanielSnedden 2 months ago
@DanielSnedden Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks so much for watching :)
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
Good video. and the tuna,beans and rice is VERY healthy and filling.also have a very long shelf life.
MultiGuitarman53 2 months ago
@MultiGuitarman53 ... And they are food that kids actually eat! Thanks for watching :)
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
This is a good video. I have done well to eliminate the waste food expenses and have trimmed it nearly to the bone. What is left to be trimmed in my budget is on cell phone, internet, and gasoline.
kentuckyprepper1792 3 months ago
@kentuckyprepper1792 ... We have been trimming our expenses too. Everyone is saying the economy is picking up, but the past 6 months has been the worst yet (for us).
watuwaitn4 2 months ago
$40 at a fast food place for your family? Do you have 4+ kids?
jaster030 3 months ago
@jaster030 ... Me, my husband, 3 teens (that all eat twice as much as us), and 2 grandchildren (that live with us). Honestly, $40 is on the low side.
watuwaitn4 3 months ago
dont use iod salt!!!
shivator 3 months ago
@shivator ... We really do not use a lot of salt, only for baking.
watuwaitn4 3 months ago
I would never get that here at our wallmart for that.
plato180 3 months ago
@plato180 ... Really, We live in an area where the cost of living is low because job salary is low too.
watuwaitn4 3 months ago
yah i have like $10 a week extra! I can not spare it.
HeartlessArchAngel69 4 months ago
@HeartlessArchAngel69 Save it, and buy your food in bulk - much cheaper. Get a part-time job, or employ yourself part-time (gardening, drywalling, painting, baking, bookkeeping, taxes - whatever your talent). Grow and can your own (most vegetables are easy to grow & canning is not hard to learn - though I should be one to talk as I haven't learned to can yet! Got extra "stuff"? (baby clothes, tools you never use, etc) SELL IT! All my best to you.
Sup3rwood 3 months ago
this is the kinda thing i do when i coupon/stockpile/ donate. see how much you can get for x dollars. just sent a care box to the church, food i dont need, most of it beautiful name brand products. the people were happy to take the donation.
lkcheat 4 months ago
@lkcheat ... It's great to give to others, and when you can coupon and get everything on the cheap, it'seven better. The church now can get twice as much as you would normally donate. You sound like you are deffinately one of the good guys :)
watuwaitn4 4 months ago
Keep on preppin everybody!
4MyNation 4 months ago
So...you've got food stored, but the SHTF and your neighbor has no food stored, but he has a gun. Do you volunteer to share, or does he just take it all?
vinegaroon1 4 months ago
@vinegaroon1 ... I do have some food set aside for family that can be givin to others, but no one knows that I have tons of food storage in my neighborhood. As soon as shtf, our storage will be split up into different locations in our house and we are working on a "hidden" area in our house. Our house that we will build will have "secret" areas for storage. Plus, we got guns too :)
watuwaitn4 4 months ago
@watuwaitn4 Don't tell anyone anything, luv.
immensecat 4 months ago
Ok, we couldn't possibly spend that much on fast food. That is half a weeks groceries.
ryoshi100 4 months ago
@ryoshi100 ... If and when we eat at a simple fast food restaurant (like Burger King or Jack in the Box, or even Subway), our family spends between $40 - $50 at one meal. That is 2 adults, 3 teens (2 of them eat more than us), and 2 children. It's way too much, but that's the cost.
watuwaitn4 4 months ago
@watuwaitn4 that amount at a fast food is normal for a family your size..i totally agree with ya.makes you wonder huh,what we take for granted just to fill in a pleasure...and i'm with hubby,i gotta have the super size...lol...i have a 12 year old son and he can put it down,so i can immagine your 3 teens..lol
triunemusicgroup 3 months ago
@triunemusicgroup ... Yea, It takes about $8 on the dollar menu to fill up my son - for us it's cheaper to Super size his.
watuwaitn4 3 months ago
This is a great lesson. Even if you did this once a month, you'd have a nice stock pile in a few months! Vary the products each month and get a wider variety.
toddweller 5 months ago
omG >.< with $40 i can live for 10 days with 2 meals from restaurant/day : /
mustdi39 5 months ago
@mustdi39 ... mashed potatoes - 17 servings, oats - 15 servings, pancakes- 13 servings, not counting 12 cans of veggies, 4 (2 pack) of stuffing, 4 cans of tuna, 3 pounds of pasta (will make 3 meals for a family of 5), not counting the rest of it. For a single person you could eat for a month or more on this. Plus, McD's won't be open for you to eat. This shows how much you could put away for a family. For my family of 7, it costs more than $40 just for cheap burgers, fris, and a drink.
watuwaitn4 5 months ago
@mustdi39 ... mashed potatoes - 17 servings, oats - 15 servings, pancakes- 13 servings, not counting 12 cans of veggies, 4 (2 pack) of stuffing, 4 cans of tuna, 3 pounds of pasta (will make 3 meals for a family of 5), not counting the rest of it. For a single person you could eat for a month or more on this. Plus, McD's won't be open for you to eat. This shows how much you could put away for a family. For my family of 7, it costs more than $40 just for cheap burgers, fris, and a drink.
watuwaitn4 5 months ago
Great video. Very motivating. Thank you.
grammykathycc 6 months ago in playlist More videos from watuwaitn4
Love your vids! Great job!! I do some food storage.. and have.. for several years. Back then there was a factory lay-off... so no work for almost 3 months. It was horrible, but my kids never went to bed hungry. Food storage is a necessity. You never know what's around the corner.
TopazStar67 6 months ago
@TopazStar67 ... I hope that everything is going OK (work wise) now. That is what your preps are for, the unexpected. We own a small buisiness and when times are tough, we regularly eat our food storage. To us, it's an absolute necessity. Thanks so much for commenting.
watuwaitn4 6 months ago
this really puts things in perspective. thanks for sharing.
Ejahi 6 months ago
haha!!! You are a Walmart food storage!!
200xowner 6 months ago
@200xowner ... yep, for a small town with almost no other option, it is a great way to get people to understand how to start food storage. Everyone has a wal-mart close by. Hopefully, after they grab a few extras at Wally World, they will start thinking longer term. But to get them started, it's as easy as going to Wal-mart.
watuwaitn4 6 months ago 2
Even if you spent $20 to $40 a week on prep items you could have a nice store of food in no time. So many people can't afford to buy in bulk.. This would be easer to store when you get a little at a time. No need to spend a day or two getting it ready to store for long term.
Allen2045 6 months ago
punch in food prep for the lazy late and cheap. a guy who goes by Zombie Tactics does a great series on preparedness-i especially suggest you see #10 which is about knorrs sides-valuable info. keep prepping!
pranksterguy1 7 months ago
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pranksterguy1 7 months ago
@pranksterguy1 ... I have seen Zombie Tactics and love the vids. I'll have to recheck #10. The thing I love about great videos is that if I see them again later, I still learn something that I misse the first time. Thanks for watching.
watuwaitn4 7 months ago
You're a smart lady! This vid can wake up alot of people as to what they can get for their money-if they give it some thought! At our local Costco Top Ramen sells for $7.45 a case,(48 packs to a case) and it's hogh in calories-which is good in a SHTF situation! You can add all sorts of things to Top Ramen.Thanks for the vid!
pranksterguy1 7 months ago
@pranksterguy1 ... Thanks so much for watching and commenting. My son could live on Ramen Noodles. We have to literally hide the food storage because he will go through a whole box in a few days. You are so right about adding anything to it. We regularly add fresh, canned and dehydrated veggies, meats, rice, beans... almost anything to bulk it up. Plus the seasoning packet is a great addition to lots of meals. But my son says its the best just plain Ramen Soup. :)
watuwaitn4 7 months ago
A friend of mine, a frugal Cajun, showed me how he would take the seasoning pack from ramen noodles and use it to season a roux or white sauce to pour over the ramen. He added some diced chicken and carrots to it and was incredibly good!
jcrefasi1 7 months ago
@jcrefasi1 ... That sounds so much better than just plain Ramen. Yumm!
watuwaitn4 7 months ago
Reality Break (tm): Them what wants ta get food will get it. Them what don' wanna have an inexhaustible store of excuses, the greatest of which boils down to "I Don't Want To".
This idea is great bait for the ones just beginning to climb up onto the fence out of the Camp of the Deniers.
Another idea is to buy a few ($20 maybe) of everyday canned foods, then only replace those foods with stuff on sale. Buying _only_ on sale saves more $ that then rolls into future purchases.
loganv0410 7 months ago
@loganv0410 ... "you can only lead a horse to water", the rest is up to them. The idea of buying only the stuff on sale after you get some food storage together is so important. Once you get into the swing of things, you can start to see a pattern of the sales. Since canned veggies doesn't go on sale in my area very often, we buy more when it does. Because tuna is on sale every 2 months, we do not have to buy as much unless it's a really good deal. Thanks for commenting.
watuwaitn4 7 months ago
@watuwaitn4 Ramen noodles make a great carb load if nothing else just like rice.
michaelofnewbabylon 7 months ago
@michaelofnewbabylon ... Ramen noodles is a bunch of carbs, but I think it will also be great to have some as a moral booster. My kids love it and if you bulk it up with veggies and canned chicken, it might make some of the food tolerable for those with picky eating. But men will not live on Ramen Noodles alone :)
watuwaitn4 7 months ago
@watuwaitn4 they work great if you drain the water and use butter with the flavor packet!
michaelofnewbabylon 7 months ago
buying ramen is way better than getting just regular pasta because its essentially pasta and you can just mix velvetta or spaghetti sauce or anything else with it; just discard that 60% DVA sodium packet of spice it comes with and just use some salt pepper and basil or something to ur likings. plus it prepares 10x faster than regular pasta
monkadelic13 9 months ago
My wife and I are in our late 30's now and I'm really thinking about this kind of stuff more and more, food stocking and prepping in general. I grew up with people who were from the midwest and canned goods year round, so I have some experience. Unfortunately, my wife is the typical, So Cal. born and raised spoiled brat. She even complains about having to go regular grocery shopping. She has zero interest in food storage. As I type this, our shelves are bare.Maybe this video will help. Thanks.
jtnoodle 10 months ago
@jtnoodle ... Good luck. Maybe you can sneak in a small amount of food storage. A little at a time, maybe put it in an unused closet... Oh, you said she was a Calif. Girl, that means no extra closet space. Well, maybe in the basement? :)
watuwaitn4 10 months ago
@jtnoodle I took over an extra closet in a spare bedroom and do all the prepping myself. She understands why I do it and doesn't complain much. My advice. Don't ask just do.
zerk54 9 months ago
Thanks for an AWESOME Video. People don't realize how much money they 'waste' that could be used for putting away food and supplies. My wife is not on board and thinks I'm paranoid or 'crazy' so things go a l
Jeffrich308 10 months ago
@Jeffrich308 ... A good way to go about getting your wife on board is not as a prepper, but how it's a convienence to pick up a few extras while it's on sale. I started telling my husband it would be great to have a few extra cans on hand for storm emergencies or if company comes. Then, I started adding 10 extra- telling him it was a great sale and how much we saved. Now he is used to our pantry being overfilled. Or you could always make a secret stash somewhere that she won't look :)
watuwaitn4 10 months ago
If most people kept track of all their spending for one month they would find money from Starbucks, fast food and dining out, adding applications on their cellphones, impulse purchases, and more.
USAPatriot63 10 months ago
@USAPatriot63 agree completely. :)
watuwaitn4 10 months ago
@MsHexwitch ... Thank you so much for watching and for commenting. Would love to go to the U.K. one day, They say the country side is beautiful.
watuwaitn4 11 months ago
amazing what you can buy for 40$
Here in Ontario Canada, food prices are going up 33% April 1st.
cherry420x 11 months ago
@cherry420x ... Our prices have gone up on everything just in the past month, it would probably cost me $5 more to buy this today, only 2 months later. I refused to buy bacon last week because the price went up, now it's over $1 more for one package. Heck, I didn't need it that bad. I guess we will be happier then ever that we have food storage. No bacon, no problem... we will eat beans today :)
watuwaitn4 11 months ago
good work
spockady 11 months ago
Great video! Can you post any recipes you would use with your food storage?
Topaz5866 1 year ago
Another way to build long term food storage is to take a portion of what you spend for groceries, go to your local LDS cannery (if you have one in your city) and buy 50 lbs of wheat, beans and rice.
MyFreedomChannel 1 year ago
Nicely done! Ridiculous cable TV payments which GO ON FOREVER would free up a lot of money for food storage but far too few are willing to give it up. They seem to place cable TV on the same level as heat for the house or gas for the car. Cable TV is not a necessity and one can live just fine without it. Imaging how your food storage could grow with a MONTHLY infusion of money like that!
For a situation like this, it all comes down to a person's priorities. It's that simple.
bee13zz 1 year ago
People can most likely find a 50Lb bag of rice for $20 - $25 at bulk stores.
Add a little meat, or veggies, or butter, or sugar, or even plain ... and eat (depending on family size) for MONTHS.
Same goes for beans. Understand though; the older beans get, the harder it is to hydrate and soften them.
That's about the time to pressure can them in Mason jars.
quaffer22 1 year ago
@quaffer22 ... Rice and beans- a great staple, very cheap, long shelf life, can add almost anything to it for variety, can be added to almost any recipe to "bulk" it up, and they taste great. It's the perfect prepper food!
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
Great video once again! Great ideals. when I go shopping with my wife, when she say 1 can~I grab 2 or 3 cans. I then tell her that it is for food storage. I try to get something extra with every trip to the store. I look for sale items all the time. Have a great day!
NotSomebody63 1 year ago
@NotSomebody63 ... That's the way to do it. That is also a good way to ease a spouse into prepping, a little at a time. After a while it just becomes routine to grab a few extra everytime you go into the store.
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
you are so right !
beerzzz 1 year ago
I live in Western Australia and over here groceries are a alot more expensive. Four my family of four (soon to be 5!) we budget $200 a week. Out of that I take $50 and once a month I do a bulk buy of mostly non food items (toilet paper, paper towels, nappies, wipes, laundry powder, dish detergent etc). I then buy a $10 gift card every week for the extras in the Xmas period and a $10 gift card for SHTF (covers that extra stock up if you know somethings coming or say temp financial crisis etc etc.
l33thun3 1 year ago
@l33thun3 ... That is a great idea about the gift cards. I used to add a few dollors here and there to my monthly utility bills, when I could. It added up and soon I was at least a month ahead if there was ever an emergency. You have to do what you can with what you have. In any prep, slow and steady will eventually add up to alot and hopefully we will all win the race.
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
@watuwaitn4 We've also been paying extra to our monthly bills by practicing "rounding up". So say our phone bill this month is $24. We pay $25 or $30, our electricity is $212 we'd pay $220 to $250 - depending on what we can afford that month. We now get bills that tell us we're in credit after the new invoice amount is deducted. We keep them 3 months ahead - which has taken us 2+ years to do. As you say: Just do a little bit at a time - it builds up! Our next goal is paying off the car early.
l33thun3 1 year ago
@l33thun3 ... It sound like you'all are on a great plan. You should be proud!
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
We must stop the mindless spending and be more aware. We are so apt to spend $10 here and $10 there with nothing to show for it! You are so right...buying food for our family is an investment.
sdunlop525 1 year ago
Great haul for $40! There is absolutely no way I could buy all this stuff with $40in my area. I'm so envious of the deals that I see others are able to get.:) Just doing the best we can with the outrageous prices around here.
1930sgirl 1 year ago
@1930sgirl ... And I think my town has high prices. I hear others talk about picking up cans of carrots for 35 cents and tuna 3/$1. But I am thankful that I can still purchase what I can for the price, they say that the prices will be going up by Summer. I've been stocking up, but I still get a few strange looks when I fill up my cart with cartons of canned goods. Infact my kids refuse to come with me when toilet paper is on sale, I buy 15 or so at a time and we have had some odd comments :)
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
@watuwaitn4 ...I have had some strange looks too! My daughter is still laughing about the Walmart clerk(young guy about 20) who asked if we were buying so much food because we were polygamists! LOL! I think he's been watching a little too much Big Love.:)
1930sgirl 1 year ago
@1930sgirl LOL!! That's one that I haven't heard yet!
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
I love your videos. You have so much useful information to share. Thank you! I love stove top stuffing! LOL!
Qintes 1 year ago
@Qintes ... I love stove top stuffing too! When I first moved out into my own apartment 20 years ago, I ate it all the time. It's one of my quick and easy comfort foods :)
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
You are a ray of sunshine to the YT prepper community!
999manman 1 year ago
@999manman ... Thanks so much for watching and posting!
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
@mrmilleniumproof ... Not to mention how good it tastes when you make it yourself. Yum!
watuwaitn4 1 year ago
@Msakaalbany ... Yes, some would not believe how fast a few items here and there add up.
watuwaitn4 1 year ago